Thomas Bundoolah Evans (c.1825-1847)
William Scott (Leicestershire 1797-1862)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1840 (inscribed on reverse)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 420 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire
NT 593150
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bundulah Evans (c.1825-1842) by William Scott (Leicestershire 1797-1862), inscribed on reverse 1840. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man facing, gazing at the spectator, short blond hair, wearing a brown coat, grey waistcoat, blue bow-tie cravat and a cream waistcoat.
Full description
This portrait of a relation of Frank Green of Treasurer's House, York was painted as a pair with one of the sitter's grandmother, Elizabeth Halliwell (née Gardner) (1757-1846) which also hangs at Treasurer's (NT 5933147). The sitter is shown while a 15 year old schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School, two years before his death from tuberculosis. His distinctive middle name is an Anglicised reference to Maha Bandula (1782-1825), commander of the Burmese army during the First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-26, a conflict in which his father Major Thomas Evans served with distinction before being mortally wounded.
Provenance
Dining Room 1922; N bed 1930-33; SDR 1933-72; Dining room 72-date; gift of Francis 'Frank' William Green FSA (1861-1954)
Credit line
Treasurer’s House, York, The Frank Green Gift (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
(inscription on back)
Makers and roles
William Scott (Leicestershire 1797-1862), publisher previously catalogued as by William Bell Scott (Edinburgh 1811 - Penkill Castle 1890), publisher